The Truth Of My Day

Yesterday Noe asked if we wanted to go on a night dive he going to do on Thursday. Ron and I agreed. We only have to pay for the tanks, we are just meeting him and some people on the beach here and walking into the ocean. A night dive! I wanted to try one this summer when the bioluminesence happens. But I will jump in and do this now. That special effect isn't supposed to start until some time in June. However last week we were at the pier at night and saw something glowing and moving in a straight line in the water. My guess is a jellyfish. It was blinking, so I could track where I saw the flashes to figure out where the next blip would be. It's very exciting. It will be like my very first time. Because it's been over a month since we last got in the water. And it will all feel new and weird because it will be dark. I want to try it though, because diving truly helps me to be in the moment. It helps me thoroughly assess what I'm seeing, feeling, hearing, and tasti...

Campeche is a photographer's dream. Colorful buildings of mixed up colors that looks like a giant came through with a new box of crayons, the kind with 120 colors to try out. Windows and majestic doors adorned with intricate ironwork on every block in the historical section. Long sunsets over the Gulf of Mexico every evening with kilometers of walkway lined with a cement wall so everyone always has a view and seat too. There is an entire block or two dedicated to outdoor eating every day, with traffic cut off and tables set out on the street.  I would just love to live here, at least in the winter. It's pretty toasty in May. Our hotel room here was it's own experience. First of all there is an elevator to the first 2 floors, then you take a marble looking staircase to our floor, which only has 4 doors. None of them are marked. There is a monsterous big mirror across from our door, which makes the hallway look much bigger, and I can watch myself come out of my door every ...

What I saw. Want I felt. What I know.  The internet says Chichen Itza was one of the most important Mayan cities and was founded around the year 500 B.C. and was occupied for a thousand years. That's a long time! Look at what has been accomplished in the last 100 years, from 1919 to 2019. According to legend (after a while it's all legend, right?) this was once a very spiritual place dedicated to a God and all good things, by a very loving people. Personally, I don't think it stayed that way.  This is a bigger temple below. Except it is a temple over a temple. According my reckoning the good people made the first smaller temple. If I remember the Book of Mormon says the people who built the first temple were good. The people who built the second temple, well it seems to me that covering up a temple means they decided they no longer liked the first one. They had many gods they worshiped. The Book of Mormon has a part in it that is called Moroni. In there it say...